Subject and Predicate What is a Subject and a Predicate? Subject Predicate Tom was infamous for his bad temper. The old man lived all by himself in the big house. The enemy did not succeed in infiltrating our borders. SUBJECT In the first sentence, ‘Tom’ is the person about whom something is being said; therefore, […]
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Parts of Speech What are Parts of Speech? In English, words are categorised into different groups called parts of speech. There are eight parts of speech.
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What is a Phrase? Phrases A phrase is a group of words put together to be used in a sentence. Phrases do not hold much value in themselves, but they become meaningful when used along with a noun. Example: Rajiv is a smart boy. The phrase ‘A smart boy’ does not explain much when written
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Functions of Prepositions What do Prepositions do? We have studied in the previous chapter that a preposition describes the relationship of its object with another word or idea in the sentence. In this chapter, we will study the various functions performed by prepositions to express these relationships. What are the Functions of Prepositions? A preposition
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Demonstrative and Possessive Pronouns Demonstrative Pronouns We know that ‘demonstrate’ means to show. Therefore, demonstrative pronouns are those that show us the nouns or point towards them. The four demonstrative pronouns in English are this, that, these and those. Let us look at an example. The noun which stands for the pronoun ‘This’ in the
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Advanced Punctuation What is Punctuation? Punctuation plays an important role in organising your written content. In the chapter on basic punctuation, you studied about using the full stop, the exclamation mark, the question mark, the comma, quotation marks and capitalisation. In this chapter, we will study and understand the use of Brackets ( ) [
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Question Tags and Short Answers What is a Question Tag? A question tag is a grammatical structure where a short question is asked to express interest rather than seek information. Question Tags – Pattern How to Form Question Tags? What are Short Answers? Short Answer – Pattern
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What are Tenses? Tenses Tense is something which tells us when the action expressed by the verb took place. There are three main divisions of tenses. Present Tense The present tense can be divided into three sub-categories: Simple Present Tense Examples of sentences in the simple present tense: Habitual actions Rishabh rises at 7 every
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Types of Sentences – Based on Form What is a Sentence? A sentence is a group of words which makes complete sense. It contains a subject and a verb, and may also contain an object. Sentences can be categorised based on Based on meaning, sentences can be declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory and optative. Let us
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Main Verbs, Helping Verbs and Modal Auxiliaries What are Main and Helping Verbs? Let us read the following sentences. The word which represents action in Sentence 1 is brought; however, in Sentence 2, one word alone does not represent the action. The phrase is serving functions as the verb. When we inspect this phrase, we
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